-- How do I know if my Windows XP has a CD burner.

I'm having trouble. I have never done this before. I have some CDs that were
given to me that have a few tracks on them. How do I had some of my music to
it? I also have CDs that are CD-R, but it won't work on them either. I plan
on buying some new ones and try again. But I'm having trouble. Right now what
I tried to burn is in a "holding pattern" waiting to be put on disc.

Do I have to download a burner program?

Computers are confusing.

Tammy wrote:
> -- How do I know if my Windows XP has a CD burner.
>
> I'm having trouble. I have never done this before. I have some CDs
> that were given to me that have a few tracks on them. How do I had
> some of my music to it? I also have CDs that are CD-R, but it won't
> work on them either. I plan on buying some new ones and try again.
> But I'm having trouble. Right now what I tried to burn is in a
> "holding pattern" waiting to be put on disc.
>
> Do I have to download a burner program?
>
> Computers are confusing.

Windows XP is an operating system (OS). That's software - just like
Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Firefox, WordPerfect, Excel, Word,
PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Picasa, Google Earth, Norton AntiVirus, McAfee
AntiVirus, RealPlayer, QuickTime, Adobe Reader, Adobe Shockwave, Adobe
Flash, Outlook, Outlook Express, etc and so on. Software.

Burning CDs requires four basic things:

- Hardware
- CD or DVD drive capable of writing to CDs or the media of your choice.
- A blank or re-usable CD (or media of your choice.)

- Software
- An application that can talk to the drive and tell it to write to the
CD (or media of your choice.)
- Data to write to the media (your stuff.)

Stamped CDs (like you get music or programs on from a retail store) cannot
be re-used.

CD-R media (they'll be labeled as such in some way) can only be written to
once (once the session is closed and if you are using it on a computer
different than the one that originally wrote to it - the session has likely
been closed.)

CD-RW media can be erased and re-used and sometimes added to.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

"Tammy" <Tammy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> -- How do I know if my Windows XP has a CD burner.
>
> I'm having trouble. I have never done this before. I have some CDs that
> were
> given to me that have a few tracks on them. How do I had some of my music
> to
> it? I also have CDs that are CD-R, but it won't work on them either. I
> plan
> on buying some new ones and try again. But I'm having trouble. Right now
> what
> I tried to burn is in a "holding pattern" waiting to be put on disc.
>
> Do I have to download a burner program?
>
Download, an install FREE CDburnerXP pro from here
http://cdburnerxp.se/download.php

It`ll do all your CD DVD burning tasks.

best wishes..

Tammy wrote:
> -- How do I know if my Windows XP has a CD burner.
>
> I'm having trouble. I have never done this before. I have some CDs that were
> given to me that have a few tracks on them. How do I had some of my music to
> it? I also have CDs that are CD-R, but it won't work on them either. I plan
> on buying some new ones and try again. But I'm having trouble. Right now what
> I tried to burn is in a "holding pattern" waiting to be put on disc.
>
> Do I have to download a burner program?
>
> Computers are confusing.

Some CD drives are read-only. Other CD drives are capable of writing a
CD (writing to a CD is often called "burning" because it's done with a
laser).

1. Look at the front of your CD drive. If it says CD-R or CD-RW, then
it's capable of writing.

2. Click Start > My Computer. Right click on the icon for your CD drive
and select Properties. Is there a "Recording" tab? If yes, then you can
burn CDs. If no, you can't. If in doubt, click the "Settings" tab and
post back with the "name" and "type" of your device.

--
Lem -- MS-MVP

Apollo 11 - 40 years ago this month:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html

The Windows XP Operating System comes with built-in cd-burning software.

Although many people install their own 3rd-party cd-burning software,
Windows will be able to tell you if your drive is a writer of any
sort...

In Windows Explorer (with or without a blank cd in the drive) click on
your cd drive's icon.

If it does NOT give you a message telling you to "Insert Disk" and
"Please insert a disk into drive x:" and you can see what looks like an
empty folder.

Then, you can "test" this by copying any small file and pasting it into
the drive, what should happen (if it IS a writing cd drive) in XP, is
that a notice immediately appears at the top of the 'folder' view that
says "Files ready to be written to the CD".

As I said, this effect happens even if there is no blank cd in the drive
and the drive is empty.

It will still display the notice "Files ready to be written to the CD"
if a file is pasted to it - IF it is a drive capable of writing.

Hope this helps.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Tammy" <Tammy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D95727C2-6904-4FE4-B2BF-BEAEBA97447B@microsoft.com...
>
> -- How do I know if my Windows XP has a CD burner.
>
> I'm having trouble. I have never done this before. I have some CDs
> that were
> given to me that have a few tracks on them. How do I had some of my
> music to
> it? I also have CDs that are CD-R, but it won't work on them either. I
> plan
> on buying some new ones and try again. But I'm having trouble. Right
> now what
> I tried to burn is in a "holding pattern" waiting to be put on disc.
>
> Do I have to download a burner program?
>
> Computers are confusing.